45th Tony Awards explained

45th Tony Awards
Date:	June 2, 1991
Location:	Minskoff Theatre, New York City, New York
Host:	Julie Andrews Jeremy Irons
Network:	CBS
Previous:	44th
Main:	Tony Awards
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The 45th Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by CBS from the Minskoff Theatre on June 2, 1991. The hosts were Julie Andrews and Jeremy Irons.

The ceremony

Presenters: Carol Channing, Joan Collins, Tyne Daly, Whoopi Goldberg, Joel Grey, Steve Guttenberg, Audrey Hepburn, Raul Julia, Jackie Mason, Shirley MacLaine, James Naughton, Penn & Teller, Anthony Quinn, Lily Tomlin, Denzel Washington

Musicals represented:

Miss Saigon ("The Heat is On in Saigon"/"Last Night of the World"/"I Still Believe"/"You Will Not Touch Him"/"The American Dream" - Lea Salonga, Jonathan Pryce. Company)
Once on This Island ("The Human Heart"/"Mama Will Provide" - La Chanze, Lillias White, Company)
The Secret Garden (Medley - Company)
The Will Rogers Follies ("Will-A-Mania"/"Favorite Son" - Keith Carradine, Cady Huffman, Company)

Special Salute:

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ("The Year of the Musical Actor"/"I Believe in You" - Robert Morse)
Fiddler on the Roof ("If I Were a Rich Man" - Topol)
Bye Bye Birdie ("Rosie" - Tommy Tune and Ann Reinking [a live remote from [[Seattle]]])
My Fair Lady and Camelot medley performed by Julie Andrews ("Wouldn't It Be Loverly" "Camelot" "I Could Have Danced All Night")
The Phantom of the Opera ("Music of the Night" - Michael Crawford)

Award winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

Best Play	Best Musical
Lost in Yonkers – Neil Simon Our Country's Good – Timberlake Wertenbaker Shadowlands – William Nicholson Six Degrees of Separation – John Guare	*The Will Rogers Follies* Miss Saigon Once on This Island The Secret Garden
Best Revival	Best Book of a Musical
*Fiddler on the Roof* The Miser Peter Pan	Marsha Norman – The Secret Garden Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg – Miss Saigon Lynn Ahrens – Once on This Island Peter Stone – The Will Rogers Follies
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play	Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
*Nigel Hawthorne – Shadowlands* as C. S. Lewis** Peter Frechette – Our Country's Good as 2nd Lieut. Ralph Clark Tom McGowan – La Bête as Valere Courtney B. Vance – Six Degrees of Separation as Paul	*Mercedes Ruehl – Lost in Yonkers* as Bella Kurnitz** Stockard Channing – Six Degrees of Separation as Ouisa Kittredge Julie Harris – Lucifer's Child as Karen Blixen Cherry Jones – Our Country's Good as Liz Morden/Reverend Johnson
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical	Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
*Jonathan Pryce – Miss Saigon* as The Engineer** Keith Carradine – The Will Rogers Follies as Will Rogers Paul Hipp – as Buddy Holly Topol – Fiddler on the Roof as Tevye	*Lea Salonga – Miss Saigon* as Kim** June Angela – as Lady Mariko Dee Hoty – The Will Rogers Follies as Betty Blake Cathy Rigby – Peter Pan as Peter Pan
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play	Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
*Kevin Spacey – Lost in Yonkers* as "Uncle" Louie** Adam Arkin – I Hate Hamlet as Gary Peter Lefkowitz Dylan Baker – La Bête as Prince County Stephen Lang – The Speed of Darkness as Lou	*Irene Worth – Lost in Yonkers* as Grandma Kurnitz** Amelia Campbell – Our Country's Good as Various Characters Kathryn Erbe – The Speed of Darkness as Mary J. Smith-Cameron – Our Country's Good as 2nd Lieut. William Faddy
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical	Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
*Hinton Battle – Miss Saigon* as John** Bruce Adler – Those Were the Days as Various Characters Gregg Burge – Oh, Kay! as Billy Lyes Willy Falk – Miss Saigon as Chris	*Daisy Eagan – The Secret Garden* as Mary Lennox** Alison Fraser – The Secret Garden as Martha Sowerby Cady Huffman – The Will Rogers Follies as Ziegfeld's Favorite LaChanze – Once on This Island as Ti Moune
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre	Best Choreography
The Will Rogers Follies – Cy Coleman (music) and Betty Comden and Adolph Green (lyrics) Miss Saigon – Claude-Michel Schönberg (music) and Richard Maltby, Jr. and Alain Boublil (lyrics) Once on This Island – Stephen Flaherty (music) and Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) The Secret Garden – Lucy Simon (music) and Marsha Norman (lyrics)	Tommy Tune – The Will Rogers Follies Bob Avian – Miss Saigon Graciela Daniele – Once on This Island Dan Siretta – Oh, Kay!
Best Direction of a Play	Best Direction of a Musical
Jerry Zaks – Six Degrees of Separation Richard Jones – La Bête Mark Lamos – Our Country's Good Gene Saks – Lost in Yonkers	Tommy Tune – The Will Rogers Follies Graciela Daniele – Once on This Island Nicholas Hytner – Miss Saigon Eleanor Reissa – Those Were the Days
Best Scenic Design	Best Costume Design
Heidi Landesman – The Secret Garden Richard Hudson – La Bête John Napier – Miss Saigon Tony Walton – The Will Rogers Follies	Willa Kim – The Will Rogers Follies Theoni V. Aldredge – The Secret Garden Judy Dearing – Once on This Island Patricia Zipprodt –
Best Lighting Design
Jules Fisher – The Will Rogers Follies David Hersey – Miss Saigon Allen Lee Hughes – Once on This Island Jennifer Tipton – La Bête

Special Tony Awards

Regional Theatre Award -- Yale Repertory Theater, New Haven, Connecticut
Tony Honor—Father George Moore (Given Posthumously)

Multiple nominations and awards

These productions had multiple nominations:

11 nominations: Miss Saigon and The Will Rogers Follies
8 nominations: Once on This Island
7 nominations: The Secret Garden
6 nominations: Our Country's Good
5 nominations: La Bête and Lost in Yonkers
4 nominations: Six Degrees of Separation
2 nominations: Fiddler on the Roof, Oh, Kay!, Peter Pan, Shadowlands, , The Speed of Darkness and Those Were the Days

The following productions received multiple awards.

6 wins: The Will Rogers Follies
4 wins: Lost in Yonkers
3 wins: Miss Saigon and The Secret Garden

External links

Official Site Tony Awards